The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.

There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

When the air balloon was first discovered, some one flippantly asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it. The doctor answered this question by asking another: "What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man."

Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.